Grade: 6 Unit: 2 Week: 1 Dates: 10/1-10/5Content: The Number System: Decimals-adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing Theme Essential Question:Can students apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication/ division and the number system to divide a fraction by a fraction, find common factors/multiples, and apply to the rational number system?
Essential Questions:
Can students add and subtract multi-digit decimals?
Can students multiply multi-digit decimals?
Can students divide decimals by whole numbers?
Can students divide whole numbers and decimals by decimals?
StandardsCompute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
6.NS.3: Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.
Objectives
Students will fluently add and subtract multi-digit decimals.
Students will fluently multiply multi-digit decimals.
Students will fluently divide decimals by whole numbers.
Students will fluently divide whole numbers and decimals by decimals.
Reflections and/or Comments from your PCSSD 6th Grade Curriculum Team
In Mathematical Practice #2, we look at two skills reasoning abstractly and quantitatively.
(Taken from Ohio Department of Education Teaching) As students study whole numbers in the elementary grades, a foundation is laid in the conceptual understanding of each operation. Discovering and applying multiple strategies for computing creates connections which evolve into the proficient use of standard algorithms. Fluency with an algorithm denotes an ability that is efficient, accurate, appropriate and flexible. Division was introduced in Grade 3 conceptually, as the inverse of multiplication. In Grade 4, division continues using place-value strategies, the properties of operations, the relationship with multiplication, area models, and rectangular arrays to solve problems with one digit divisors. In Grade 6, fluency with the algorithms for division and all operations with decimals is developed. Fluency is something that develops over time; practice should be given over the course of the year as students solve problems related to other mathematical studies. Opportunities to determine when to use paper pencil algorithms, mental math or a computing tool is also a necessary skill and should be provided in problem solving situations. Background InformationRecommended: For a quick overview of the standard(s) to be addressed in this lesson, see Arizona’s Content Standards Reference Materials.
Have students bring examples of decimals from their lives and post around the room.
Create, from the examples brought, two examples of decimal addition, subtraction, multiplication and division application problems.
Key Questions
Can students explain in their own words or draw a diagram that explains the steps for adding decimals?
Can students explain in their own words or draw a diagram that explains the steps for subtracting decimals?
Can students explain in their own words or draw a diagram that explains the steps for multiplying decimals?
Can students explain in their own words or draw a diagram that explains the steps for dividing decimals?
Observable Student Behavior
Students use the similarities between whole number and decimal addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Mathematical Practices 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 4. Model with mathematics. 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 6. Attend to precision. 7. Look for and make use of structure. 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Vocabulary
Math
Order of operations Estimate Place value Expressions Sum Differences
Suggested ActivitiesOn Core Mathematics
Add and Subtract Decimals Lesson 27 p53-54
Multiply Decimals Lesson 28 p55-56
Divide Decimals by Whole Numbers Lesson 29 p57-58
Divide with Decimals Lesson 30 p59-60
Mastering the Common Core ABC
Chapter 2 pgs 15-25
Teaching the Common Core Math Standards with Hands-On Activities Grades 6-8
Decimal Operation Tournament p15
Gizmos
Sums and Differences with Decimals
Multiplying Decimals (Area Model)
Find the sum or difference of two decimal numbers using area models. Find the decimals and their sum or difference on a number line.
Model the product of two decimals by finding the area of a rectangle. Estimate the area of the rectangle first. Then break the rectangle into several pieces and find the area of each piece (partial product). Add these areas together to find the whole area (product).
JBHM
GP1-Unit 1, SBIL 3 Operations on Decimals
Glencoe
Workbook lesson 27 pg53-54-Ensure students are using order of operations accurately
Book p121-128: Smart essentials, study guide
Highly Recommended: The Illustrative Mathematics Project offers guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students will experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards. The website features a clickable version of the Common Core in mathematics and the first round of "illustrations" of specific standards with associated classroom tasks and solutions. Tasks that illustrate content standard 6.NS.3:
Learning about Multiplication Using Dynamic Sketches of an Area Model
http://www.nctm.org/standards/content.aspx?id=25090 Students can learn to visualize the effects of multiplying a fixed positive number by positive numbers greater than 1 and less than 1 with this tool. Using interactive figures, students can investigate how changing the height of a rectangle with a fixed width changes its area. e-Math Investigations are selected e-examples from the electronic version of the Principles and Standards of School Mathematics (PSSM). The e-examples are part of the electronic version of the PSSM document. Given their interactive nature and focused discussion tied to the PSSM document, the e-examples are natural companions to the i-Math investigations.
Too Big or Too Small?
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L252 In this lesson, students develop number sense through a series of three hands-on activities. Students explore the following concepts: the magnitude of a million, fractions between 0 and 1, and the effect of decimal operations.
Theme Essential Question:Can students apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication/ division and the number system to divide a fraction by a fraction, find common factors/multiples, and apply to the rational number system?
Essential Questions:
StandardsCompute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
Objectives
Reflections and/or Comments from your PCSSD 6th Grade Curriculum Team
In Mathematical Practice #2, we look at two skills reasoning abstractly and quantitatively.
(Taken from Ohio Department of Education Teaching)
As students study whole numbers in the elementary grades, a foundation is laid in the conceptual understanding of each operation. Discovering and applying multiple strategies for computing creates connections which evolve into the proficient use of standard algorithms. Fluency with an algorithm denotes an ability that is efficient, accurate, appropriate and flexible. Division was introduced in Grade 3 conceptually, as the inverse of multiplication. In Grade 4, division continues using place-value strategies, the properties of operations, the relationship with multiplication, area models, and rectangular arrays to solve problems with one digit divisors. In Grade 6, fluency with the algorithms for division and all operations with decimals is developed.
Fluency is something that develops over time; practice should be given over the course of the year as students solve problems related to other mathematical studies. Opportunities to determine when to use paper pencil algorithms, mental math or a computing tool is also a necessary skill and should be provided in problem solving situations.
Background InformationRecommended: For a quick overview of the standard(s) to be addressed in this lesson, see Arizona’s Content Standards Reference Materials.
AssessmentProduct
Key Questions
Observable Student Behavior
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Estimate
Place value
Expressions
Sum
Differences
- Add and Subtract Decimals Lesson 27 p53-54
- Multiply Decimals Lesson 28 p55-56
- Divide Decimals by Whole Numbers Lesson 29 p57-58
- Divide with Decimals Lesson 30 p59-60
Mastering the Common Core ABC- Chapter 2 pgs 15-25
Teaching the Common Core Math Standards with Hands-On Activities Grades 6-8- Decimal Operation Tournament p15
Gizmos- Sums and Differences with Decimals
- Multiplying Decimals (Area Model)
- Find the sum or difference of two decimal numbers using area models. Find the decimals and their sum or difference on a number line.
- Model the product of two decimals by finding the area of a rectangle. Estimate the area of the rectangle first. Then break the rectangle into several pieces and find the area of each piece (partial product). Add these areas together to find the whole area (product).
JBHM- GP1-Unit 1, SBIL 3 Operations on Decimals
Glencoe- Workbook lesson 27 pg53-54-Ensure students are using order of operations accurately
- Book p121-128: Smart essentials, study guide
Highly Recommended: The Illustrative Mathematics Project offers guidance to states, assessment consortia, testing companies, and curriculum developers by illustrating the range and types of mathematical work that students will experience in a faithful implementation of the Common Core State Standards. The website features a clickable version of the Common Core in mathematics and the first round of "illustrations" of specific standards with associated classroom tasks and solutions.Tasks that illustrate content standard 6.NS.3:
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- Learning about Multiplication Using Dynamic Sketches of an Area Model
http://www.nctm.org/standards/content.aspx?id=25090Students can learn to visualize the effects of multiplying a fixed positive number by positive numbers greater than 1 and less than 1 with this tool. Using interactive figures, students can investigate how changing the height of a rectangle with a fixed width changes its area. e-Math Investigations are selected e-examples from the electronic version of the Principles and Standards of School Mathematics (PSSM). The e-examples are part of the electronic version of the PSSM document. Given their interactive nature and focused discussion tied to the PSSM document, the e-examples are natural companions to the i-Math investigations.
- Too Big or Too Small?
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L252In this lesson, students develop number sense through a series of three hands-on activities. Students explore the following concepts: the magnitude of a million, fractions between 0 and 1, and the effect of decimal operations.
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